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Dataset

 

ESA Aerosol Climate Change Initiative (Aerosol CCI): Level 3 monthly mean aerosol products (IASI_LMD algorithm), Version 2.1

Latest Data Update: 2020-06-10
Status: Ongoing
Online Status: ONLINE
Publication State: Working
Publication Date:
Download Stats: last 12 months
Dataset Size: 201 Files | 239MB

Abstract

The ESA Climate Change Initiative Aerosol project has produced a number of global aerosol Essential Climate Variable (ECV) products from a set of European satellite instruments with different characteristics.

Citable as:  ESA Aerosols CCI project team (9999): ESA Aerosol Climate Change Initiative (Aerosol CCI): Level 3 monthly mean aerosol products (IASI_LMD algorithm), Version 2.1. Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, date of citation. https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/ce4a7f225d9f4b559a3756b3e8f76916/
Abbreviation: Not defined
Keywords: Aerosol, ESA, CCI

Details

Previous Info:
No news update for this record
Previously used record identifiers:
No related previous identifiers.
Access rules:
Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
Use of these data is covered by the following licence(s):
https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/licences/specific_licences/esacci_aerosol_terms_and_conditions.pdf
When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.
Data lineage:

Data were processed by the ESA CCI Aerosol project team and supplied to CEDA in the context of the ESA CCI Open Data Portal Project.

Data Quality:
Data are as given by the data provider, no quality control has been performed by the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)
File Format:
Data are netCDF formatted.

Process overview

  • units: None
  • long_name: Dust optical depth at 0.55 microns
  • var_id: Daod550
  • units: None
  • long_name: Dust optical depth at 10 microns
  • var_id: Daod10000
  • units: None
  • long_name: Dust optical depth at 11 microns
  • var_id: Daod11000
  • units: degrees_north
  • var_id: Latitude
  • long_name: Geodetic Latitude
  • units: degrees_east
  • var_id: Longitude
  • long_name: Geodetic Longitude
  • units: km
  • long_name: Mean altitude of the layer
  • var_id: Mean_dust_layer_altitude
  • units: None
  • long_name: Standard deviation of the Dust optical depth at 10 microns
  • var_id: Daod10000_uncertainty

Co-ordinate Variables

Coverage
Temporal Range
Start time:
2007-01-01T00:00:00
End time:
2014-12-31T23:59:59
Geographic Extent

 
90.0000°
 
-180.0000°
 
180.0000°
 
-90.0000°